This paper analyzes the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect innovation. While … previous studies have usually considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate to what … innovation firms and hence overcome the assignment problem of existing empirical studies, that is, whether firms using both …

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In 'Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical … results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms …. Using a binary size measure, we find strong support for the traditional view that firms patent their most important …

innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate …This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect … the complementary role of the two protection methods. We identify protection strategies for single innovation firms and …

British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract …

earnings for a patent grant and for highly-cited patents a longer-lasting premium of 30% in earnings three years later. Similar … inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their … medium-term premia accrue to inventors who initially hold the patent rights, although they forego earnings at the time of the …

.g. patents, to protect their innovations, whereas small and medium-sized (SME), low-tech and weakly internationalized companies …

on the enjoyment of fundamental rights while granting injunctions on patents. This paper argues that the Indian courts … public interest aspect and human rights implications while granting injunctions in patent litigation. Moreover, it asserts … that the courts should exercise prudence in granting injunctive relief in cases involving patent infringement, and take …

mechanisms (IPPMs) in the formation of research partnerships. Patents are the most frequently used IPPM to protect both …